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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Civil War-Era Women And Volunteerism 20170902

She teaches a class discussing the ways northern middle class women volunteered during civil war. She focuses on Louisa May Alcott. Chronicled in her book called hospital sketches. Its about an hour. All right. Well, welcome. To a class that will focus on women and volunteerism during the u. S. Civil war. You all read a primary source document written by a woman who participated in the civil war. Louisa may alcott. Who worked as a nurse. So were going to start off our class today by looking at hospital sketches. Which all of you should have available to you. And out ready to chat. About the source. So the big question that were posing and investigating today is is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices that they made during the civil war. Theres two questions. And then how did that volunteerism influence the out come or affect the out come of the civil war. Those are our over arching questions that were looking at today. ....

New York , United States , Elizabeth Blackwell , Mary Edwards Walker , Jim Demint , Louisa May Alcott , Kate Cumming , Big Question , Civil War , First Impression , Something Like , Like Holding , One Way , Fredericks Burg , Good Time , Real Life , Army Needs , Different Things , Flip Side , Florence Nighten , School Nursing , Book Middle , Say Something , Night Watch , Pen Paper , Hospice Care ,

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Civil War-Era Women And Volunteerism 20170902

You all read a primary source document written by a woman who participated in the civil war. Louisa may alcott. Who worked as a nurse. So were going to start off our class today by looking at hospital sketches. Which all of you should have available to you. And out ready to chat. About the source. So the big question that were posing and investigating today is is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices that they made during the civil war. Theres two questions. And then how did that volunteerism influence the out come or affect the out come of the civil war. Those are our over arching questions that were looking at today. We start with Louisa May Alcott. And her hospital sketches. Which was published during the war. It was serialized and published. So americans who read the magazine that it was published in dould read about her experiences in a civil war era hospital. So lets start by id like to hear your thoughts about th ....

New York , United States , Elizabeth Blackwell , Mary Edwards Walker , Louisa May Alcott , Kate Cumming , Big Question , Civil War , First Impression , Something Like , Like Holding , One Way , Fredericks Burg , Good Time , Real Life , Army Needs , Different Things , Flip Side , Florence Nighten , School Nursing , Book Middle , Say Something , Night Watch , Pen Paper , Hospice Care , Bad News ,